Exponential stability of a general slope limiter scheme for scalar conservation laws subject to a dissipative boundary condition (Q2120446)

In this paper, the exponential stability is studied of general systems of discretized scalar conservation laws with positive speed using boundary feedback laws. The system under consideration is a set of \(d\) nonlinear scalar conservation laws coupled at the boundary by a square matrix \(H\) of size \(d\): \(R_i(t, 0) = [HR(t, 1)]_i\). The problem on exponential stability under consideration is equivalent to find sufficient conditions on \(H\) such that for any initial data, the solution of the system converges exponentially fast toward zero. The focus is on finite volume numerical approximations of such systems using a wide class of slope limiter schemes built from the upwind monotone flux. The author finds sufficient condition on H such that the discretized version of the system is exponentially stable. The proof is based on new discrete Lyapunov techniques in the spirit of the continuous theory [\textit{J.-M. Coron} et al., J. Differ. Equations 262, No. 1, 1--30 (2017; Zbl 1368.35171)] and a careful use of Harten formalism. The dissipation rate is estimated from below uniformly with respect to the discretization. The convergence of the scheme toward the entropy solution was established. A separate section of the paper is devoted to the analysis of examples. In particular, the author illustrates numerically that slope limiter schemes are clearly less dissipative than the upwind scheme and capture better the behavior of the continuous solution.